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N. L. BRADLEY. Lamp Fixture..

No. 235,329. Patented Dec. 7,1880.

MPETERS, PHOTO-LITiiOGRAPfiEH, WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHANIEL L. BRADLEY, OF MERIDEN, CONN., ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY & HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LAMP-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,329, dated December '7, 1880.

Application filed October 20, 1880. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL L. BRAD- LEY, ot' Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Lamp-Fixtures; and

I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawin gs and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

the use of a conical shade, and in which the shade is supported independent of the lamp, so that the lamp may be removed without removing the shade.

In the usual construction of this class of 2 5 fixtures the shade is suspended by the neck,

an arm extending from some part of the fixture to and so as to embrace the neck of the shade but this is an awkward arrangement, inconvenient, and necessitating such an addition to 0 the fixture to form the arm as to detract materially from the symmetry of the fixture.

The object of this invention is the construction of the fixture so as to support the shade by its lower edge entirely; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described, and

particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the central rod of a chandelier, from which in the illustration two arms, B B, extend horizontally. At the outer end the arm is fitted to receive the lamp D, and extends up each side to a point above the lamp, to form seats a for the shade E, the lamp standing in a recess, C, between said extensions, or it may be a ring restiu g at those two 5 points, and upon which the shade will set;

but preferably I make the seats, as seen in Fig. 2, adjustable-that is to say, with a plate,

or, provided at its outer edge with a flange, b, which will close over the lower edge of the shade, and these plates a are made adjustable 0 on the seats a, and provided with set-screws to secure them in the position to embrace the lower edge of and hold the shade, as seen in Fig. 2, or they may be provided with a spring the tendency of which is to draw the plates a radially inward.

The shape or design of the arm is immaterial to this invention, it only being essential that it shall form a recess, C, within which the lamp will set, and at the sides extend up to form a seat for the lower edge of the shade.

By this construction the usual arm extending over the shade is avoided and a neater and more symmetrical appearance attained.

It will be understood that this improvement 6 applies to a bracket-arm supporting a single lamp equally as well as to a chandelier.

I do not broadly claim supporting the shade above the lamp, as such, 'I am aware, is not new but I am not aware of a fixture having the bracket-arm extending up each side the lamp to form seats above for the shade, and a seat for the lamp between the extensions of the bracket-arm.

I claim 7 1. In a lamp-fixture, the bracket-arm constructed at its outer end with a support for the lamp, and extending up each side the lamp, combined with seats on the said extension to receive and support the shade entirely by its lower edge, substantially as described.

2. In a lamp-fixture, the bracketarm constructed at its outer end with a support for thelamp, and extending up each side the lamp, combined with seats made adjustable on the said extensions to receive and support the shade entirely byits lower edge, substantially as described.

NATHANIEL L. BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, L. D. ROGERS. 

